Act 9: Mandibular_Quiet and Antagonism

Act 9: Mandibular

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> “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

−Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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1
Prologue – αποκάλυψις
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Act 1: Biblichor
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1: Required Reading
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2: Censory Deprivation
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3: The Plains of Simple Truth
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4: The Hotel of Kallie Formica
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5: Propheteering
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6: Caught Red-Handed
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7: A Void Dance
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Interval I: Γαια
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Interval II: Investigative Journalism
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Act 2: Exegesis
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8: Stuff and Nonsense
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9: Æthers and Shipping
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10: The Plains of Hard Fact
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11: Would, for the Tree
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12: Omniphidiance
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13: For the Original Story was One With Pictures In
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14: Age of Flame
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15: Laboratory Magic
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16: Dramattical
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17: Dreams and Visions
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18: Carpalithos
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19: Mostly Humanless
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20: The Rain, In Plain, Falls Mainly On The Train
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21: Conversational Mortality
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22: Indicies
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Interval III – A Pleasant Chat
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Interval IV – In Which Red Does Something Dumb (Again)
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Interval V – Five Fathoms Deep, Beyond Their Eyes
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Act 3: Carnivale
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23: Fortunes Told, Pals Read
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24: The Greatest Show, Unearthly
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25: Fate or Flight
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26: Carnivorous Carnival
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27: Heath Robinson’s Quoits
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28: Blurred Suckers
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29: Haemoholics Anonymous
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30: Regroup and Recoup
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31: ReQuesting
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32: Good Cop, Bad Carp
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Interval VI – Hollowed Hall
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Interval VII – Shelf Life
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Act 4: Conspirator
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33: Magic and Mayhem
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34: Light Reading
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35: Melville Morbidity
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36: Coiled Impression
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37: Haunting Houses, as in Houses That Haunt
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38: A Pedestrian Sanctum
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39: Much Walk About Nothing
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40: A Handy Chat
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41: Reticulatopolis
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42: City Scarper
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43: Chasing Pavements, as in Pavements That Chase
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44: Last of House Triskelion
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45: Recriminations and Reintroductions
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46: War and Trees
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47: Magi Babble of Magibabble
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48: The Red Right Hand, It Plots and Schemes
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49: Can It See Me In My Dreams?
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Interval VIII – Never Open This Box
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Interval IX – Deathless
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Interval X – The Smell of Storms
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Act 5: Penumbral
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50: For the Serpent was more crafty than the other beasts
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51: There’s a Snake in My Book
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52: Panic Is Probably Warranted
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53: Oh God, Not You Again
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54: The White and the Grey
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55: Script Seraph
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56: Like a Patient Etherised Upon A Table
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57: Ozone Odours
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58: Let’s Go (Land)
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59: Train the Body, Train the Mind
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60: Second Meetings
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61: Axiomatic
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62: Another Pillar For The Roof Of The World
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63: Lingua Frogger
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Interval XI – Form and Function
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Interval XII – Ashes to Ashes
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Act 6: Arboreal
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64: Safe Arbour
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65: Something Cold, Something Dark, Something Borrowed, Something Red
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66: Smogland Morning
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67: Marsh Madness
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68: Frog Family
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69: Prophetic Fallacy
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70: To Serve Their Turn
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71: Into the Deep
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72: Aquatics and Architecture
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73: Bathyscape Getaway
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74: A Series of Tubes
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75: Answers and Questions
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76: Red Spells in the Morning
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77: Pneumatics
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78: Upper Warrens of the Stormwall
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79: Ghost Ferry Be Travel You?
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80: Kickstart My Ride’s Heart
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81: Goblin Engineering! Duck!
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Interval XIII – Quite A Long Time Ago
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Interval XIV – Starless Dark
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Interval XV – What’s Left Behind
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Act 7: Philosophage
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82: A Return To The Unfamiliar
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Intermission ١ – An Ecolography
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83: Confectiomancy
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Intermission ٢ – Given Form
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84: Darkness, Dread & Secrets
110
Intermission ٣ – Aidrailomon
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85: Wyrms In The Brain
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Intermission ٤ – The Song of Singularity
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86: Bring not violence to the Moment of Peace
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Intermission ٥ – DID YOU SEE THE DARKNESS DREAM?
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87: The Downside To Getting In Big Heroic Fights
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88: Draco Delenda Est
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89: The Affairs Of Dragon Hunters
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90: Mineral Exposits
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91: Back To Foyer
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92: Edificibilities
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93: Ouroboros, Youroboros
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94: Deep in the Roots
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95: Let’s Go Sail A Ship
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Interval XVI – To Seek, Mayhaps To Find
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Interval XVII – Music of the Spheres
126
Act 8: Adroit
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96: HC SVNT MONSTRUMS
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97: Tread Quietly Toward The Tower
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98: And Yet The Spire Hungers
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99: Think Like Yourself
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100: Up, Down and Around
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101: Greeting Party
133
102: Nobody’s Home
134
103: The Heights, like a Reptile, Are Scaled
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104: Waxen Walls
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105: Stop Meeting Yourself
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106: Sinister Doppelgänger
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107: It’s A Boat Time
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108: Al Dente
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Interval XVIII: Avast, Me Hearties
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Interval XIX – Filtration, Infiltration
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Act 9: Mandibular
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109: Up the Teeth Without A Paddle
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110: Charondolier
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111: Toothplaced
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112: Keep of the Hunters
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113: Hitting the Books, Hitting the Wyrms
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114: Chart the STARs
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115: Subplots Collide
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116: High Speed Boat Chase
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117: Alive in the Water
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118: Theseus’ Dinghy
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119: The Calm Before −
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Interval XX – Wait, not that storm, a different storm
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Interval XXI – Dramatic Irony
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Act 10: Deathless
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120: −The Storm
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121: Perspectual Shift
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122: The Pinions of the Spine
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123: There Might Be Frying Pans And Fire Involved
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124: Flight Scene
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125: Occupationally Hazardous
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126: Blunder in the Dark
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127: The Meta-Force of Metaphors
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128: Darker, Deeper
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129: Boxes in the Basement
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130: Escape from Murder-Dungeon
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131: Reunion Picnic
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132: Gang Together
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133: Dead Roads
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134: Through Mictlan
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135: Revolving Library Door
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Interval XXII – Who Goes There?
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Interval XXIII – A Matter of Tim
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Act 11: Earth
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136: From Foyer to Atrium
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137: Threshold
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138: Imprint on the World
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139: Forgetting
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140: Dampire
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141: House, but not Home
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142: Courtesy Call
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143: Don’t Acknowledge It
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144: The Labyrinth of STAR
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145: Ariadne’s Nightmare
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146: Full Circle By Half
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147: Waking from Empty Sleep
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148: Unremarkable Remarks
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149: Contractual Catastrophe
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150: Interrupt – Shapes Underground
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151: Pyrologos

Act 9: Mandibular

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